a dark dissolution quest
To the Bone is Wonderchild’s answer to Pluto’s retrograde in Capricorn: Pluto, the planet of death and transformation; retrograde, the period of review and reflection; Capricorn, the sign of structure and authority. For the last time in our life, Pluto returned to the realm where the law that governs your internal landscape is made. With heat and pressure, Pluto returned to compost your structures of permission. Pluto returned to melt your bones.
Wonderchild holds it to be true that you are here to see how what can happen will happen. You are a shaper of possibility. To the Bone is here to help you look more closely at how permission rules possibility. You cannot extend beyond what you allow yourself to do, to have, to be. This offering compels you to reveal whether the “unbreakable” rules you’ve set upon yourself shelter or imprison the possibility of fulfilling your desires.
The life you want is buried, like your marrow is buried: under flesh and bone. Your flesh is your behavior. Your bone is your permission. It’s not enough to surrender the behaviors that hinder you. For true and lasting change, you must also surrender the self-imposed laws that inspired them.
To reach your desire, you must cut through the flesh:
OR
“i’m a scorpio, say less”
“i crave depth and darkness”
“i want magic and ritual and indulgence”
“what happened to rites of passage?”
“i need to clean house before i start my next chapter”
“i’ve really got some shit to grieve”
“this is not the story i want to be telling”
“what would happen if i let go of everything that isn’t mine?”
“i would love to just unravel”
“damn, what do i want?”
any of these belong to you?
you might belong here
should you do this?
t h a t d e p e n d s
the trick is: death is not enough
do you want to die?
Through lore and magic, simmered in the wisdom of astrology and The Divine Fundamentals, embark on a quest to remake yourself.
commencement
the mirror
Inaugurate your quest with To the Bone’s Ember Lore, and an orientation ritual.
week one
flesh of the demon
Explore distorted behaviors alongside archetypes of the seven traditional planets with course lore.
week two
dying to death
Take your distorted behaviors off life support. Presence grief and hold space for the coming death of your old ways of being.
week three
the demon bones
Explore distorted permission structures alongside archetypes of the seven traditional planets as your now dead behaviors begin to decay.
initiation
the black elk
Revelvet: melt your bones and dissolve your internal law with them in a ritual ceremony alongside the archetype of the elk and its sacred antler velveting process.
week four
when the bone broth speaks
Notice what emerges in the afterglow of internal liberation alongside gentle influence of the seven traditional planets.
week five
the beholding hours
Summon your many me’s in the afterglow of internal liberation.
week six
dream garden
Muse and bask in your desires and visions for the future alongside self-centering wisdom from The Divine Fundamentals and the seven traditional planets. Immerse yourself in making and/or viewing visual art.
week seven
the refining hours
Distill your quintessence.
week eight
coalescence
Draw together new internal permission structures that shelter our desires alongside the seven traditional planets with a proclamation ritual.
week nine — eleven
by the bone
Let your new internal structure do the work of summoning preferred reality alongside wisdom from The Divine Fundamentals.
completion
deliverance
Reflect on your transformation and welcome your new life with ritual sendoff.
